ASR: After the Upgrade

After two-plus years of intense organizational focus on the Upgrade, it’s time for ASR to collect our thoughts about what’s next. There are lots of ideas, but our task will be looking in four primary directions and deciding how that information could impact ASR moving forward. John Vollum will be leading that effort for ASR; his past experience with organizational and collaborative efforts are a valuable resource while these topics are explored.

Looking Back - Where have we come from? What have we been good at and what have we accomplished?

John’s role: Help ASR learn from the Upgrade and apply it to future projects, large and small.

Looking Forward - Where are we going as an organization? What are the challenges and needs we’ll be addressing as a leading higher education department?

John’s role: Work with ASR managers to align work and staff ASR to meet those challenges.

Looking Out - How is higher education changing? What are the needed knowledge, skills and abilities.

John’s role: Looking across ASR to ensure that we are organizationally prepared for changes in higher education. One example would be helping OSF find and prepare for their next leader.

Looking In - Who are we? What makes us tick? What are the issues we need to address to be an organization that offers opportunity and challenge that engages and develops our staff?

John’s role: Assist ASR to actively work together on issues identified in our engagement survey.

Do you want to share an interesting aspect of the work you do? Or are you curious about the work happening in another ASR unit? Submit your ideas here.